Auschwitz death camp?

Em J

I'm writing a paper on Auschwitz and i cant find out how many people they would put on the train and how long the ride was!? can anyone help? Thank you much!

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I think that your question is probably impossible to answer with any precision. Prisoners arrived at Auschwitz from all over German-occupied Europe, so to speak of "the train", as if there were only one train, and of "how long the ride was", as if the prisoners travelled from only one place, is rather inaccurate. Before the war, the town of Oswiecim had 44 railway lines running into it, so, by the time of the German occupation, it was a railway hub for that region, and therefore a good choice for the Auschwitz camps (note that there was not just one camp at Auschwitz).
If you enter 'death trains to Auschwitz' into the Google search box, you will see some figures that relate to arrivals of prisoners.
I have some information about Camp Westerbork, in the Netherlands. During the war, prisoner transport trains departed every Tuesday evening for what the prisoners thought were "work camps", somewhere "in the East". In May of 1943, 7,766 people departed by train from Westerbork for "work camps", but I do not have any more-detailed information.
You might like to look at this website:
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/AuschwitzScrapbook
Best of luck with your research.

Have you ever went to a camp with no proper toilets...?

I'm Perfec

I've never been to one... the camp I've been to had proper toilets and cabins didn't sleep in tents or anything :-/

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ha you gotta rough it out kid.
when i was backpacking in europe we literally went hiking all day just around and found places to camp and never had proper toilets. we had to piss behind bushes and shit for the whole month we were there. ha
but to be honest that trip was the best month of my life.
it was worth it.

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How were the "Internment Camps" during WW2 in the USA for the Japanese different from?

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The concentration camps in Europe?

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They relocated Japanese-Americans away from the coastal areas and into places in the Heartland like Iowa. There were actual houses and garden plots for the families, which is significantly different than the barracks that the extermination camps in Europe. The Japanese were allowed to work and earn a modest living, though they couldn't use telephones or have access to Western Union. It's fair to say they were under serious scrutiny, but they weren't physically harmed or under risk of death. There weren't armed guards or land mines around the camps, though there was a significant barrier with barbed wire. People lost their dignity in the camps and their civil rights were trod upon, but they didn't lose their lives or get separated from their loved ones.

What's the cheapest way to get ferry's and coaches around europe?

amazondebs

I'm a student and me and some of my friends are going to go round europe for a few weeks, camping in various places, whats the cheapest way to do this and I mean really cheap. We're literally just taking a tent and some clothing with us.

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Early booking for the coach companies, Eurolines is most often mentioned: http://www.eurolines.com/
In the UK you can also use Megabus, can only be booked online:
http://uk.megabus.com/default.aspx
Other countries may also have cheap coach companies, but not in all countries the bus is the best option. I think you should try google for more companies.
Within France, the Netherlands and Belgium you will not find many or even any cheap coach options, but between these countries and from them to the rest of Europe you will find cheap bus/coach travel.

In some countries the train can be almost as cheap and have more options. In Germany there are special tickets for people traveling together on the slow trains, very cheap but not fast. More flexible than the bus though:
http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query.exe/en?newrequest=yes&protocol=http:&

A good site for train info is: http://www.seat61.com/

'Remember that farther east is mostly cheaper, as soon as you are beyond Germany, Switzerland and Austria and Italy.
Countryside and small towns are cheaper than capital cities, certainly when camping.
If you are from the UK you might be able to get a cheap flight to Eastern Europe for less than you would pay on the ferry to the continent.
http://www.skyscanner.net/ or a site like it.

If this is not cheap enough yet, you can try organized hitchhiking, this is a German site, there are more, Google can help you out: http://www.mitfahrzentrale.de/index.php?landnr=D&lang=GB
And in case you hit the bad weather jackpot, couch surfing:
http://www.couchsurfing.org/ or http://www.hospitalityclub.org/ and again there are more sites to be found.

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